What's in your vise?

[M_D]

God damn Zak.
Now another gadget I’ll need to buy!
Thanks for the explanation as I was wondering the purpose of those and how they worked.
I can see that being extremely helpful when doing loops.
SF

Why spend $6 on a little piece of foam from Hareline when you can spend 10 times more on a nifty set of plastic spring loaded clips that do the same thing.

Sheese, this IS fly tying after all.....c'mon guys

Magic Tool Clip Set Regular - Marc Petitjean - Fly Tying

Description: The Magic Tool is undoubtedly an indispensable tool for every fly tier. It will enable you to tie all kinds of flies and to use many components at one and the same time very easily. 3 table clips (28, 35 and 45 mm) 2 clamps ( 45, 55 mm) 3 dowels ( 10, 12, 15 mm) User manual included

www.edsflyshop.com

go ahead...ask me how I know

 

[SKYKO]

You hold a feather (cdc in this fly) by each end and force the quill of the feather into the appropriately sized slot. Doing so pushes the fibers on both sides of the quill straight up. Then you grasp the fibers with a clip, pull the feather from the foam slot, and trim off the quill with scissors. You are left with a bunch of spread out aligned fibers that can be inserted into a split thread or dubbing loop. Essentially, it lets you use both sides of the feather instead of putting the clip on one side of the feather at a time.

Holy crap that is a slick idea, thanks.

 

[Dr. Magill]

Why spend $6 on a little piece of foam from Hareline when you can spend 10 times more on a nifty set of plastic spring loaded clips that do the same thing.

Sheese, this IS fly tying after all.....c'mon guys

Magic Tool Clip Set Regular - Marc Petitjean - Fly Tying

Description: The Magic Tool is undoubtedly an indispensable tool for every fly tier. It will enable you to tie all kinds of flies and to use many components at one and the same time very easily. 3 table clips (28, 35 and 45 mm) 2 clamps ( 45, 55 mm) 3 dowels ( 10, 12, 15 mm) User manual included

www.edsflyshop.com

go ahead...ask me how I know

Ha!!!
I know as well
Does work well plus you can see through it

 

[Zak]

Why spend $6 on a little piece of foam from Hareline when you can spend 10 times more on a nifty set of plastic spring loaded clips that do the same thing.

Sheese, this IS fly tying after all.....c'mon guys

Magic Tool Clip Set Regular - Marc Petitjean - Fly Tying

Description: The Magic Tool is undoubtedly an indispensable tool for every fly tier. It will enable you to tie all kinds of flies and to use many components at one and the same time very easily. 3 table clips (28, 35 and 45 mm) 2 clamps ( 45, 55 mm) 3 dowels ( 10, 12, 15 mm) User manual included

www.edsflyshop.com

go ahead...ask me how I know

I feel the same way about my $45 metal cdc clip!

 

[Brute]

I feel the same way about my $45 metal cdc clip!

yea...I got one of those swiss thingamajigs...until someone showed me el cheapo potato chip bag clips...

 

[Canuck from Kansas]

I feel the same way about my $45 metal cdc clip!

yea...I got one of those swiss thingamajigs...until someone showed me el cheapo potato chip bag clips...

Yup, this is mine:




Cheers

 

[Zoran]

I love my Swiss CDC clamp.
They sent me one as a present. I posted few CDC flies once on Instagram using their CDC and they loved it. Someone from company posted comments and later they asked my friend (who is SWISS CDC tier in Europe) for my shipping address.
One day I got it in mail. I wish they sent me MINUS size, but I am not complaining. My other clamps are from AliExpress (same as those plastic for 75$). I paid 5$ maybe. Or little more. It is great tool but (TBH) I will rather buy some materials than pay $45USD for clamp.

I would pay 25$.

 

[Kfish]

Small fry.

 

[Zak]

I love my Swiss CDC clamp.
They sent me one as a present. I posted few CDC flies once on Instagram using their CDC and they loved it. Someone from company posted comments and later they asked my friend (who is SWISS CDC tier in Europe) for my shipping address.
One day I got it in mail. I wish they sent me MINUS size, but I am not complaining. My other clamps are from AliExpress (same as those plastic for 75$). I paid 5$ maybe. Or little more. It is great tool but (TBH) I will rather buy some materials than pay $45USD for clamp.

I would pay 25$.

It is a nice tool and I like using it. I just feel a little sheepish about how much I spent on it.

 

[M_D]

Small fry.

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what do you use for the head?

 

[skyriver]

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I could swing that all season!

 

[clarkman]

trash panda arsed swinger who's sometimes a stripper...

 

[rattlesnake]

Got suckered into trying this crane fly larva. Seems gimmicky but it’s a good use of the squirmy wormy material and I hate squirmys so I had the stuff on hand.

Edit some scuds too (wasn’t sure how I liked the bead in the middle so I had to wet em to check them out. They are ok.

 

[clarkman]

$57 for that magnetic clip set? damn.

I invested all of $1 (or whatever the actual cost at the Dollar Tree is nowadays) for a dozen of these.


Another favorite are the reverse tying tools for bucktail at ~$35 a pop....my empty bic pen works amazingly well.

edit: I stand corrected!

 

[SculpinSwinger]

Always amongst the mess on the tying desk
It is the perfect tool for folding reverse tied bucktail back. You can see I spent big on the hackle pliers - I just can’t imagine anything works better than the empty pen.

 

[Bongoman]

 

[mcswny]

Always amongst the mess on the tying desk View attachment 104545
It is the perfect tool for folding reverse tied bucktail back. You can see I spent big on the hackle pliers - I just can’t imagine anything works better than the empty pen.

It’s what I use.

 

[Kfish]

Stick on eyes and uv resin.

 

[FinLuver]

I’m still stuck in the 18th century when it comes to my fly tying……
SF

I often wondered who this was…

 

[Zak]

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Your design? I've never seen those before. I'm going to tie some for the panfish here!